birthpangs

How ironic that the “democratic birthpangs of the Middle East” that the Bush administration fought for would start in the most unlikely place … Iran.

Global Voices in English » Arab World: “Iran is a Democratic Dictatorship” 2009

We had Condo leezza effin 'Rice, the worst, most incompetent national security adviser in the history of the United States of America, the biggest bald-faced liar on the Sunday talk shows between 2002 and 2004, appointed as Secretary of State, you know, the "birthpangs of democracy" lady who was caught buying shoes one day in New York City?

Why Obama Wants Hillary at State - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

We have already had a full pregnancy term - and still no sign of any birthpangs.

Plaid Cymru getting their excuses in first. Glyn Davies 2008

Imagine, for instance, if a senior government official in Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Turkey had described September 11 as “the birthpangs of a new America.”

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME 2006

Imagine, for instance, if a senior government official in Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Turkey had described September 11 as “the birthpangs of a new America.”

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

Western civilization, in the birthpangs of social revolution, produced first the American and then the French Republic.

The American Empire Scott Nearing 1933

Might we not look upon the momentous happenings which, in the course of the past twenty years, have so deeply agitated every continent of the earth, as ominous signs simultaneously proclaiming the agonies of a disintegrating civilization and the birthpangs of that World Order — that

The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Yet in spite of the unique extent of the devastation, we should not forget that this hard labor constituted the birthpangs of a new Europe.

Hjalmar Branting - Nobel Lecture 1921

Through infinite birthpangs their courage is sure.

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems Vachel Lindsay 1905

Yet, she told herself again, that climax had already been born; the birthpangs were over; for had not He come who was the heir of time? ...

Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson 1892